Prince Harry -- just like most 17-year-olds I grew up with

mind you, garry's habit's bought compared to willies alleged activities...sniff

His true father was Uther Pendragon masquerading as Charles thanks to a spell from Merlin.

and his best chat-up line (according to the copy of the Sun I picked up on the tube this morning so highly dubious)?

"would you like to come back for a drink at my palace" - Smoooth

Recreational drug use I can accept, bad manners I cannot.

Once again, I am full of grate for Emma's invaluable guide to social etiquette.

I'm sure private eye will bill the story as "Idle rich person spends money on drugs shock"

http://i29.tinypic.com/8xr1is.jpg

I'd like to congratulate Drudge for breaking news that everybody else thought it would be irresponsible to break.

http://i30.tinypic.com/minchz.png

oh noes they changed the picture! (if you type in that URL it's not like this anymore) - I swear I didn't photoshop this.

it probably means somethign that i wasnt surpised at the idea that prince harry would throw a party where everyone has to wear purple

The more I see him, the more I like him: "At night you go out, you take your spade, and nine times out of ten someone comes out and stumbles over you when you're having a shit"

I think it's awfully decent of Madonna to offer a 'diary-free macrobiotic dinner'.

Though I guess it's nothing to write home about.

Oscar party one night and fighting the Taleban the next, he gets about a bit doesn't he:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44458000/jpg/_44458312_harry300b.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7269743.stm

Did he take his nazi costume for parties or will he find a Saddam costume there?

It's very nice to be sort of a normal person for once, I think it's about as normal as I'm going to get.

;_;

he looks like what's-his-face, doesn't he?

http://bigrikcouk.brinkster.net/images/default_61a.jpg

Just a tad...

He has got Charles nose though.
http://www.babble.com/CS/photos/jun2007/images/26139/405x425.aspx

Diana's nose looked like that before she DIDN'T HAVE IT DONE, HONESTLY surely?

http://www.channel4.com/news/media/images/Channel4/news/articles/2008/02/day28/28_harry_afghan_r_1--news-imageB.jpg

Prince Harry has been fighting the Taleban on the front line in Afghanistan, the MoD has confirmed.

Define front line and actual number of light years between HRH and the nearest Taliban bullet? </skeptical>

http://www.channel4.com/news/media/images/Channel4/news/articles/2008/02/day28/28_harry_afghan_r_1--news-imageB.jpg

Such good friends, man....

Such good friends.

I am choosing to assume that that is how that dude's head is shaped.

Royal inbreeding, Dan, c'mon.

I was surprised that someone would be so irresponsible in leaking the story then I found out who it was leaked it.

Define front line and actual number of light years between HRH and the nearest Taliban bullet? </skeptical>
Right next to the fighting in the worst bits of Helmand, seemingly.

OMG you're right: he killed 30 darkies with his own bare hands! I retract my previous skeptiscism.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/
Who knew Jon worked for the bbc!

Oh come on, this is what younger royal sons are FOR, since the... well, Norman Conquest! Leading charges in battles to inspire the troops and it doesn't really matter if they get killed because they are just the spare.

I don't really understand why he's at so much more of a risk simply as a result of word being out that he's there. I'm sure he'd be a great prize to any would-be kidnappers, but unless they actually know specifically where he is, call-signs or whatever, surely they're at no greater advantage now than before?

Who cares about any of these people, seriously.

(gestures, vaguely)

Feel sorry for Harry. For many years now he's been trained to kill brown people, and he's probably very good at it now. Only skill he's ever mastered, and some malcontents are doing their best to take this away from him.

Well, it's a shame that they can't send younger sons off to fight the French any more. That is what they were bred for.

Are you agitating for war against the French

MOD confirms Harry's withdrawal

Is this what they mean about being part of the "Jam generation"?

No, I'm just stating that it's very hard to retrain 1500 years of (in)breeding. Bloody Entente Cordiale and all. ::shakes fist at Channel::

Tru. Lesser of two evils and all that, i'm drafting my petition that we march on Calais in April. I can count on your vote?

Let's get the froggy bastards! Now there's a good occupation for Prince Harry.

http://www.tamsquare.net/pictures/H/William-Hogarth-The-Roast-Beef-of-Old-England-or-Calais-Gate.jpg

Yay!

Let's get the froggy bastards!

Fuck you!

Btw Sir Jock Stirrup

It doesn't take much for The Sun to get all "hooray we won the war in 1964" does it?

So, Haz has killed 30 taliban, and we all cheer him home. With notices like that, he;ll be off to Iraq and kill 30 there and sweep the govt to landslide power...

but unless they actually know specifically where he is, call-signs or whatever

The Independent, your moral conscience:

The only British national newspaper that did not put the story on its front page on Friday was the Independent.

"We don't share our rivals' incredible fascination with every aspect of the royal family's lives," deputy editor-in-chief Ian Birrell told Reuters.

"The most interesting aspect about all this is the breaking of the media embargo by Drudge, but we decided that in itself wasn't big enough to warrant the front page."

As far as the embargo goes, Birrell was supportive.

"I don't see a problem at all. I think the media has acted in a very responsible manner on what has been a difficult situation in which lives were at risk," he said.

See, all this broke just in time for the pictures and film of Harry in 'action' were ready for release to all news stations.

And not so soon as to be putting him in too much danger.

his call-sign was reported in the Metro this morning!

Then, duh, change it. From GingerNuts to SonOfJames or something. Can't be that difficult.

I'm not a royal hater or nuffin - as a rule, like most people here, couldn't give a toss - but would likely have an interest in him getting kidnapped by the Taleban. Killed won't sell half as many papers.

Surely they wouldn't have really put him in the front line? If he had been killed it would have been an enormous coup for the taleban, no? Having said that I suppose the whole of the country is the front line to some extent.

Harry n'aime pas la vie anglaise

Le prince Harry sera certainement accueilli en héros dans son pays à son retour d'Afghanistan, où il a combattu les talibans, mais il ne cache pas son peu d'enthousiasme pour une vie anglaise rythmée par ses rapports difficiles avec les médias, selon des propos publiés.

"Je n'ai pas envie de rester traîner à Windsor", avait-il déclaré la semaine passée à des journalistes qui le suivaient en Afghanistan, en allusion à l'une des casernes de son régiment à l'ouest de Londres, près de l'un des châteaux de sa grand-mère la reine Elizabeth II.

"Mais de manière générale, je n'aime pas tant que ça l'Angleterre et, vous savez, c'est sympa d'être à l'écart de la presse, des journaux et de toutes les conneries qu'ils écrivent", avait-il.

Ces déclarations n'avaient pas été rendues publiques en vertu d'un accord avec la presse britannique.

Source : AFP

Ha ha ha ha ha! All the more reason to send him to war with France, then!

Surely they wouldn't have really put him in the front line?

Any Taleban wanting to fight in a ten mile radius of Codename Cloth-ears were required to register in advance and fill in a form for MI5.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/02/29/world/NYT2008022910253674C.337.jpg

buddy movie ^^^ !!!

Well done, your highness.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23445647-details/Harry+the+No+1+terror+target+as+Al+Qaeda+threatens+to+take+revenge+for+%27royal+aggression+against+Muslims%27/article.do

If he had been killed it would have been an enormous coup for the taleban, no?

Yes, but it would also give the allies (or whatever our side is called) the nearest we could get to a martyr.

Next: William is going to fight too, like his war hero brother did.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/royals/article858482.ece

Haribo!

This all seems so made up

Doesn't it.

Fucking vital to the war effort, this:

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00444/harry5_ss_444843a.jpg

Also: that front line looks mighty dangerous.

I'm starting to fear that The Sun isn't even being sarcastic with all of their Hero Harry stuff:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article865220.ece
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/royals/article858482.ece

I think, I really think, I'm going to puke

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/frontpage/00main1_0203.jpg

Isn't McCain's son serving in Iraq somewhere?

Amazing PR job for the army, the war and for Harry who has changed from piss artist who gets accused of shooting protected birds on his mum's chunk of Norfolk to 'One of Our Boys' literally overnight. The incredible unquestioning tone of what are obviously military briefings is sickening. 30 Taleban dead? Really? Any confirmation of that outside of this story?

OK, I just looked it up and it did seem to be confirmed before the Harry story broke.

I think all these pictures could be captioned with Such good friends, man...such good friends.

Paul Burrell's volunteered to go fight in Afganistan next up.

Paul Burrell's volunteered to go fight in Afganistan next up stand in for Paul Daniels on next week's Ant And Dec.

Fuck the sun and fuck its readers.

I mean really, "Our army of readers salutes you, Harry", blaarf.

Oh that's an army as well?

Heroes, every one of them.

I'm gonna hold off to see what Gaunty thinks before I voice my opinion.

Sorry, straight talking man of the people Gaunty

Melanie P has got in first...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_article_id=524389&in_page_id=1772&in_author_id=256

What those images of soldier Wales stirred in people was the recognition of qualities that once made them proud to be British but which they fear might have been lost for ever.

Qualities of courage, stoicism and honour. Of deep patriotism and love of one's country to the extent that one would lay down one's life for it.

Of leadership, selfless service and a sense of duty and loyalty both to the people under one's command and to the nation.

Of pride in Britain's armed forces - a historic global byword for character and excellence. And of fighting and dying for a noble cause.

In recent decades, all these virtues have come under such sustained assault and erosion that they have all but disappeared from view.

The armed services, the last bastion of such characteristics, have come to be seen as an embarrassment in a nation which now despises war along with its own historic identity.

I thought the Mail was anti-BLAIR'S FOOLISH WAR?

It's all too convincing, so I'm going along with LBC's Steve Allen who opined: "it was all a publicity stunt I'm afraid, he did no fighting at all, no fighting at all I'm afraid, total waste of time, total waste of time, he was only out there ten weeks, which is nothing really, nothing at all, and Twickenham Post Office really are the thickest and worst post office in the world, I'm afraid, I'm NEVER going in there again, my little package with the blinking batteries from Australia, and they readdressed it to AUSTRIA, total thicko bikey idiots I'm afraid, should be rounded up and put in an abbatoir really, Kerry love, no one's interested in you I'm afraid, no one at all"

dreadful liberal england, despising something as wholesome and wonderful as war...

"it was all a PR stunt" is also what that PR dude (Max?) Clifford said in an article I read earlier.

ah, here it is: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3466122.ece

Max Clifford is correct. It wasn't a very sophisticated PR effort and was quite predictable. However, it will fool the people who want to be fooled, the people who wave flags when Royals pass (grannys and nutters). Get him back to the front line asap. (if he is killed or injured please ignore what I've just written)

darren, cambridge, UK

^^^this

Who's this "soldier Wales" then? Is he like The Outlaw Josey Wales with Clint Eastwood?

Soldier Son of Wales Windsor. with Sondra Locke

Get him back to the front line asap. (if he is killed or injured please ignore what I've just written)

ha!

there's something i don't understand - this deployment has supposedly been cut short because foreign media have 'leaked' that prince harry is there? but hasn't this been on the news here like for months? even i knew about this and i don't read the newspapers..

I think you may be thinking of when he wanted to go but they wouldn't let him because it was too dangerous. Not like now. I love this "foreign" media leak. When have the US press even been called 'foreign' before? It was always the 'American media' surely?

I'm surprised that this hasn't been a bigger story. I was OUTRAGED when I heard it blurt out of his ungrateful mouth, I bloody well was, but then this is the first specific mention of it I've seen. Other than upthread, in French.

heh!

Shortened:

I don't want to sit around in Windsor. But I generally don't like England that much and, you know, it's nice to be away from all the press and the papers."

Who could really blame him? Since he was born, (blah blah)

"And yet I don't truly believe that Harry dislikes England at all," says Brian Hoey, royal commentator and author of a biography on Prince William. "I genuinely believe he just didn't articulate his feelings all that well. I think what he actually meant was that he didn't like the environment in which, because of his royal position, he is forced to live.

Yes, when he says "I don't like England that much" he was actually saying "I love it! (dreadlock holiday...) "

But I generally don't like England

omg he really is one of us!

Prince Harry: Fancy A Pint?

prince harry should write a blog in the guardian about bricking it in his imminent stay in england

http://www.irishart.com/blog/uploaded_images/irish-art-718045.jpg

#LAD

i somewhat sympathise with the "let him at it" argument. it's a sad state of affairs that you feel like calling him naive for thinking he could get pissed without someone exploiting him for cash.

Is there such a thing as a pre-abdication?

Is he now famous for being famous?

Would it stop if he said "BTW James Hewitt is my dad"?

do we want it to stop?

i mean, if they have to be in the press at all i'd rather it was shit like this than middleton waving blandly over and over again like some sort of lack of personality cult

would play strip pool w/ prince harry

also, a suspicious side-eye at the lack of cock shots

loves his banter he does

would play strip pool w/ prince harry

depends whether or not he has his own clothes on under the nazi uniform

heh!

Shortened:

I don't want to sit around in Windsor. But I generally don't like England that much and, you know, it's nice to be away from all the press and the papers."

Who could really blame him? Since he was born, (blah blah)

"And yet I don't truly believe that Harry dislikes England at all," says Brian Hoey, royal commentator and author of a biography on Prince William. "I genuinely believe he just didn't articulate his feelings all that well. I think what he actually meant was that he didn't like the environment in which, because of his royal position, he is forced to live.

― Mark G, Monday, 3 March 2008 15:21 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ahhh....

He said it wrong! he is/was misspoken!

Media question: the photos are all over the internet, but sites like the Sun and Daily Mail did not put them up themselves, they only link to it. Bearing in mind those two tabloids are the raunchiest around, I wonder: why? Are UK media not allowed to publish compromising pictures of royalty or something?

The media are not going to do anything that might encourage Lord Leveson's enquiry to recommend a privacy law.

disliking england is the most english thing -- truly he is your prince

- he's a dude, the tabloids are not that raunchy when it comes to men
- the Mail especially has a pretty obvious pro-royal propaganda thing going on

Two out of two, yes.

the pics aren't available.

They wouldn't be published anyway. I think all the UK papers have an agreement with the palace not to publish unauthorised shots of them. They were up in arms a few weeks ago when an Australian paper got paparazzi pictures of his brother's honeymoon.

I see the New Statesman asked the same question I did: Readers are the real reason British papers won't publish the naked Prince Harry photos

what a sweet homage to his mother

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/prince-harry-wife-meghan-near-catastrophic-car-chase-involving-pararazzi-harrys-2023-05-17/